Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Early Days
7. 1 Controlled Randomness 35
8. 2 Excavating the Origins of Network Art in Canada: Leslie Mezei, Peter Milojevic, and Computer Art Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s 58
9. 3 The First Live Performances on the Moog Synthesizer and Intersystems’ Electrosonic Concert at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1968 85
10. 4 The Montreal Milieux of Suzanne Duquet and Suzy Lake 107
11. 5 Circling the Computational: Jean-François Lyotard and Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale 137
12. Part Two. Towards Personal Computing
13. 6 New Media Art and Industry, a Critical Relationship 171
14. 7 The Complex Digital Utopianism of Robert Adrian X 188
15. 8 Beyond Electronics: Pimatsiwin and Computing Arts in Manitoba 205
16. Part Three. Interviews
17. 9 Interview with Leslie Mezei 231
18. 10 Interview with Roger Vilder 243
19. 11 Interview with Gilles Gheerbrant 250
20. 12 Interview with Mick Dawdy 258
21. 13 Cybernetic Selfie: Interview with Les Levine 269
22. 14 Vera Frenkel in Conversation with Dot Tuer: String Games, Then and Now 279
23. 15 Interview with Norman White 294
24. 16 Interview with IAIN BAXTER& 310
25. 17 Zainub Verjee in Conversation with Julia Polyck-O’Neill 318
26. Glossary 333
27. Bibliography 339
28. Contributors 357
29. Index 361